The Reunion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDE FDDF GHHG IDDJ DDDD KLLK MNHM OAAO PDDP EQQE RSSR FDDF| The gulf of seven and fifty years | A |
| We stretch our welcoming hands across | B |
| The distance but a pebble's toss | B |
| Between us and our youth appears | A |
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| For in life's school we linger on | C |
| The remnant of a once full list | D |
| Conning our lessons undismissed | D |
| With faces to the setting sun | E |
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| And some have gone the unknown way | F |
| And some await the call to rest | D |
| Who knoweth whether it is best | D |
| For those who went or those who stay | F |
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| And yet despite of loss and ill | G |
| If faith and love and hope remain | H |
| Our length of days is not in vain | H |
| And life is well worth living still | G |
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| Still to a gracious Providence | I |
| The thanks of grateful hearts are due | D |
| For blessings when our lives were new | D |
| For all the good vouchsafed us since | J |
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| The pain that spared us sorer hurt | D |
| The wish denied the purpose crossed | D |
| And pleasure's fond occasions lost | D |
| Were mercies to our small desert | D |
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| 'T is something that we wander back | K |
| Gray pilgrims to our ancient ways | L |
| And tender memories of old days | L |
| Walk with us by the Merrimac | K |
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| That even in life's afternoon | M |
| A sense of youth comes back again | N |
| As through this cool September rain | H |
| The still green woodlands dream of June | M |
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| The eyes grown dim to present things | O |
| Have keener sight for bygone years | A |
| And sweet and clear in deafening ears | A |
| The bird that sang at morning sings | O |
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| Dear comrades scattered wide and far | P |
| Send from their homes their kindly word | D |
| And dearer ones unseen unheard | D |
| Smile on us from some heavenly star | P |
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| For life and death with God are one | E |
| Unchanged by seeming change His care | Q |
| And love are round us here and there | Q |
| He breaks no thread His hand has spun | E |
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| Soul touches soul the muster roll | R |
| Of life eternal has no gaps | S |
| And after half a century's lapse | S |
| Our school day ranks are closed and whole | R |
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| Hail and farewell We go our way | F |
| Where shadows end we trust in light | D |
| The star that ushers in the night | D |
| Is herald also of the day | F |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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